Re: Lexer and syntax highlighter powered by LPeg

[Hans Hagen <pragma@...>]

Peter Odding wrote:
> Hi all! Despite my interest in LPeg it took me till last week to try 
> it out.
> First evaluation: it rocks :). I think LPeg can be for Lua what regex 
> are for
> Perl. That is, in popularity, because LPeg's flexibility and speed are 
> already
> amazing. This says *a lot*. As a test for myself and LPeg I wrote a
> lexer/tokenizer[1] based on the BNF at lua.org/manual/5.1 and a syntax
> highlighter[2] to try it out. Both are public domain, so if anyone 
> wants to put
> them on the wiki[1] or if Roberto wants to include the lexer as an 
> example with
> LPeg, that's fine with me.
>
> As noted in the readme for the lexer I think it should handle all 
> syntax but I
> might have missed a number format or something. Corrections welcome.
>
> Thank you Roberto for this most wonderful library!
>
> [1] http://xolox.ath.cx/lua/lexer.html
> [2] http://xolox.ath.cx/lua/highlighter.html
> [3] http://lua-users.org/wiki/LpegRecipes
thanks for the nice example!

Hans

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